Global Warming: A Case Study in Groupthink–Booker
February 26, 2018
By Paul Homewood
Christopher Booker
As it is now 30 years since the great alarm over global warming first burst onto the world, it might seem hard to believe that science could now come up with anything that would enable us to see this story in a wholly new light. But that is what I am suggesting in a paper I launched last week in the House of Lords, drawing on the remarkable insights of a book published by Irving Janis, a professor of psychology at Yale, more than 40 years ago.
The purpose of my paper is to look at the whole global warming story afresh in light of the three scientific rules Janis came up with to describe what happens to people when they are carried away by what he called “groupthinkâ€. Rule one is that a group of people come to share a view of the world that is not properly based on reality and from looking at all the evidence. It is just an untested belief.
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